Western bow tie



April 1956 N. M. NICHOLS ET AL 2,740,126

WESTERN BOW TIE Filed April 6. 1954 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTORS llbkmwlmlmkdlm April 1956 N. M. NICHOLS ETAL 2,740,126

WESTERN BOW TIE Filed April 6, 1954 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTO RS MZkM/WMMMEMM WESTERN BOW TIE Nick M. Nichols and Ann R. Nichols, Phoenix, Ariz. Application April 6, 1954, Serial No. 421,224

1 Claim. (Cl. 2151) This invention relates to articles of neckwear, and more particularly to an improved Western bow tie.

The main object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved bow tie which is simple in construction, which is attractive in appearance, and which resembles a knitted bow tie of the Western type.

A further object of the invention is to provide an im proved bow tie device which is inexpensive to manufacture, which is attractive in appearance, which is easy to put on, and which only involves a few component parts.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description and claim, and from the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is an elevational view, partly broken away, showing the main body of the bow tie device of the present invention, said main body being in a partly folded position,

Figure 2 is a vertical cross sectional view taken on the line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a top view of the main body of the bow tie device and the clip member employed with the bow tie device, the clip member being engaged with said main body.

Figure 4 is an elevational view of the band element of the bow tie device, showing the preliminary steps of folding the band element to its final condition.

Figure 5 is an elevational view of the band element in an intermediate stage of construction thereof, with one end of said band element folded to define pleats.

Figure 6 is an elevational view of the band element with both ends of the element reversely folded to define reversely facing pleats at the ends thereof and to simulate a twist in the intermediate portion of the band element.

Figure 7 is a rear elevational view showing one end of the band element of Figure 6 secured to the rear portion of the main body of the bow tie device prior to the completion of the bow tie device.

Figure 8 is an elevational view of the auxiliary element employed to simulate the string portion of the bow tie device of the present invention.

Figure 9 is a front elevational view showing how the auxiliary member of Figure 8 is secured to the main body of the bow tie device after the band element has been secured thereto as in Figure 7.

Figure 10 is a front elevational view of the completed bow tie device of the present invention.

Figure 11 is a rear elevational view of the completed bow tie device shown in Figure 10.

Referring to the drawings, and more particularly to Figures 10 and 11, the bow tie device is designated generally at 12 and comprises a horizontal main body 13 of flexible material having relatively wide end portions 14, 14, simulating the bow portions of a necktie, and having a narrow intermediate portion 15. Designated at 16 is an auxiliary element of flexible material having depending widened end portions 17, 17 and a narrow intermediate portion 18 which is secured to the inter mediate portion of the main body 13 by a band ele- States Patent '0 ment 19, said band element being of flexible material and surrounding the narrow intermediate portions 18 and 15 of the auxiliary element and main body and being secured thereto, the band element 19 having a deformed or twisted front portion 20 simulating the twist in the knot of a Western bow tie of the Arizona Gambler type. Disposed between the rear portion of the band element 19 and the intermediate portion 15 of main body 12 is a clip member 21 having opposed pairs of relatively movable jaws 22, 23, the inside jaws 23 being engaged through slits 24 formed in the main body 12, whereby the major portions of the inner jaws 23 extend through the slits 24 and thus secure the clip member 21 to the main body.

The main body 13, namely, the bow part of the bow tie device comprises two'elongated pieces of flexible material 25, 25, identical in size and shape and having portions of increased width 26, 26 on opposite sides of the narrow intermediate portions 27 of the pieces. The ends of the pieces are also narrowed, as shown at 28. The pieces 25, 25 are stitched together along their longitudinal margins and the resultant member is then turned inside out so that the stitched edges thereof are directed inwardly, as shown in Figure 2.

As shown inFigure l, the narrow portions 28, 28 of one of the pieces is formed with the slits 24, 24 through which the inner jaws 23 of the clip member 21 are later inserted, as will be presently described.

The narrow portions 28 are folded to positions wherein said narrow portions are substantially in abutment with each other at the narrowed intermediate portion 15 of the main body. The inner, jaws 23 of the clip member 21 are then inserted through the respective slits 24 and the clip member is then secured in position by suitable stitching.

The auxiliary member 16 comprises two identical pieces of flexible material stitched together along the major portion of their edges and then turned inside out, after which the stitching is completed so that the auxiliary member has smoothly meeting edges. The pieces comprising the auxiliary member have widened end portions, to define the widened end portions 17, 17 of said auxiliary member and the pieces have narrowed intermediate portions to define the narrow intermediate portion 18 of the auxiliary member.

The band element 19 comprises a rectangular piece of flexible material 30, shown in Figure 4, folded several times to define a rectangular body 31 of plural thickness, shown in Figure 5. The ends of the body 31 are then reversely folded, as shown at 32 and 33 to define reversely facing multiple ply pleats at the opposite ends of the body 31 and to distort the body to produce the simulated twist 20 at the intermediate portion of the body. The reversely facing pleats 32 and 33 are secured by suitable stitching 34, as shown in Figure 6.

The narrow intermediate portion 18 of the auxiliary member 16 is disposed subjacent to the bottom edge of the narrow intermediate portion 15 of the main body 13, and the band element, comprising the body 31 arranged as in Figure 6, is then engaged around the narrow intermediate portions 15 and 18 of the main body and the auxiliary element and around the intermediate portion of the clip member 21 secured to the intermediate portion of the main body at its rear side. The pleated ends 32 and 33 of the band element are then secured together and to the adjacent rear portions of the main body and auxiliary element by suitable stitching, whereby the twist portion 20 of the band element is exposed at the front side of the bow tie device, as shown in Figure 10, simulating the twist at the center or knot portion of a Arizona Gambler type of Western bow tie.

As shown in Figures 7 and 9, the body 31 may be secured to the narrowed intermediate portions of the main body 13 and the auxiliary element 16 by first fastening one of the pleated ends of the member 31, for example, the end 32, to said narrowed intermediate portions, as by means of a plurality of threads 37 stitched through the pleated end 32 of the member 31 and passed around the narrowed intermediate portions 15 and 18, whereby the member 31 depends from the rear of the narrowed intermediate portion 15 of main body 14 in the manner shown in Figure 7. The member 31 may be then passed around the intermediate portion of clip 21, and the narrowed intermediate portions of the main body and the auxiliary member and the pleated end 33 of the body 31 may then be brought downwardly into engagement with the secured end 32 of member 31, after which the end portions 33 and 32 of the body 31 may be stitched together and may be stitched to the members 13 and 16 to lock the ends of member 31 to the main body and auxiliary element of the bow tie device.

The various flexible portions of the bow tie device may be made of any suitable flexible material, such as printed fabric in suitable patterns or in plain colors.

It will be readily understood that the bow tie device may be easily worn by merely engaging the respective pairs of clip jaws 22 and 23 with the edges of the collar tabs of the wearer in the usual manner employed in fastening a detachable bow tie device to the wearers shirt.

While a specific embodiment of an improved Western bow tie device has been disclosed in the foregoing description, it will be understood that various modifications within the spirit of the invention may occur to those skilled in the art. Therefore, it is intended that no limitations be placed on the invention except as defined by the scope of the appended claim.

What is claimed is:

A bow tie device comprising a horizontal main body of flexible material having relatively wide end portions simulating the bow portions of a necktie and a narrow intermediate portion, an auxiliary element comprising a separate body of flexible material having depending widened end portions and a narrow intermediate portion, a band element of flexible material surrounding and secured to the narrow intermediate portions of said main body and auxiliary element, and a clip member secured within said band element, saidclip member having opposed pairs of relatively movable jaw elements, the rear of the intermediate portion of said main body being formed with respective slits, each slit receiving one of the jaw elements of the said respective pairs of jaw elements, said band element comprising a rectangular piece of flexible material folded to define a rectangular body of plural thickness, the ends of said last-named body being oppositely folded to define reversely facing pleats at said ends and to thereby simulate a twist in the intermediate portion of said last-named body, and said last-named ends being joined at the rear side of the intermediate portions of the main body and auxiliary element with the intermediate portion of said last-named body located at the front side of the intermediate portion of the main body and auxiliary element.

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